The Devereaux Legacy
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- Author: Carolyn Hart
- Publisher: Harlequin Gothic Romance # 14
- Year: 1986
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Book Description
Would the truth release her—or destroy her? Raised in Texas by her late paternal grandmother, Leah Devereaux Shaw had never been told about the circumstances of her parents' deaths nineteen years ago. When she visited Devereaux Plantation in South Carolina to learn what she could, she was shocked to hear that she had been presumed dead for the same length of time. Leah's arrival precipitated the reappearance of the Whispering Lady, a ghost whose presence foreshadowed death. And not all of Leah's cousins by adoption—Cissy, Merrick and John Edward—were delighted to see her. Only Merrick seemed to share Leah's fears about uncovering the truth—especially when she became a target for murder....